Philanthropists Lynn and Oscar Wyatt made the donation to benefit the Ertan Research and Education Fund at the Ertan Digestive Disease Center at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. It will help benefit further research and post-graduate education in gastroenterology and hepatology.

“With the help of good friends like Oscar and Lynn, our team of highly-specialized physicians is able to investigate cutting-edge research, offer one of the top GI fellowships in the United States, and provide the most effective treatments for patients suffering from complex and complicated digestive and liver diseases,” said Dr. Atilla Ertan, medical director of the Center.

At present, the team of 22 academic physicians at the Center is working towards discovering how to detect early esophageal cancer prior to its late formation and non-surgical treatments for Barrett’s dysplasia, a complication of chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease. They are also studying early cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases, biliary and pancreatic benign and malignant disorders plus the need for various advanced gastroenterology endoscopic diagnoses and treatments.